Electrical services in Esher
Esher is an affluent Surrey town with a mix of large detached houses, 1930s properties, and character homes in the Claygate and Hinchley Wood areas. Many properties in Esher have been significantly extended or renovated, and the electrical installations often need to be brought up to match.
The larger properties in Esher tend to have more circuits, more lighting zones, and higher electrical demands than a typical three-bedroom home. This means the consumer unit, cable sizes, and circuit design need to be specified correctly from the start.
Common electrical work in Esher
Consumer unit upgrades
Larger Esher homes often have consumer units with 16 or more circuits. Upgrading to a modern board with RCBO protection on every circuit ensures that a fault on one circuit does not affect the rest of the house. This is particularly important in larger properties where losing all power is more disruptive.
Rewiring during renovation
Many Esher homeowners undertake significant renovation projects. Rewiring during a renovation is the ideal time, as cables can be run before walls are finished. We work alongside architects, builders, and interior designers to deliver the electrical installation as part of the wider project.
Lighting design
Esher properties often have generous room sizes and high ceilings, which offer more scope for layered lighting design. We install combinations of recessed downlights, feature pendants, wall washers, and under-cabinet lighting, all controlled through smart dimming systems.
Garden and outdoor electrics
The generous plots typical of Esher properties mean garden electrics are a common request. Garden lighting schemes, power to pool houses and outbuildings, outdoor kitchens, and EV chargers are all regular jobs in this area.
EICR
An Electrical Installation Condition Report (EICR) is a thorough check of a property's fixed wiring, the consumer unit, circuits, sockets, switches and light fittings, to confirm it is safe and meets current standards. If you let out a property in Esher it is a legal requirement: every private landlord in England must hold a valid report and renew it at least every five years. Owner-occupiers are not obliged to have one, but a check every ten years, or before buying or selling, is sensible.
We inspect and test to BS 7671 (the 18th Edition Wiring Regulations) and issue a full Electrical Installation Condition Report setting out the condition of the installation and anything that needs attention. Esher's larger detached homes tend to have many more circuits and lighting zones than a typical house, so an inspection here can take a little longer, often most of a day, but you still receive the same clear satisfactory or unsatisfactory outcome with every fault explained in plain terms. Where remedial work is identified, we can carry out the repairs and reissue the certificate.
Esher sits within Elmbridge Borough Council, and with so many properties in Claygate and Hinchley Wood having been extended or renovated over the years, it is common for the electrics to have grown piecemeal, which is exactly the kind of mixed-era installation an inspection is designed to assess. We carry out EICRs across KT10. Read more about EICR and landlord certificates.
Areas within Esher we cover
- Esher town centre (KT10)
- Claygate (KT10)
- Hinchley Wood (KT10)
- Claremont area
- Esher Common
Getting to Esher
Esher is within our standard service area, accessible from Kingston via the A307 and A3. There is no additional travel charge.